Saturday Obsession with Autumn (SatWE)

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“My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Robert Frost

Atticus *. challenged us to take a subject and obsess over it poetically for Saturday Writing Essential. Since I’ll forever be obsessed by all things autumn, here goes

Autumn (abecedarian)

Brilliant Colors

Darkness

Equinox

Fall

Glorious

Holidays impending

Jack O’Lanterns

Kites

Leaves maniacally nodding

Orange pumpkins

Quaking reveals skeleton trees

Umbrellas vertical in wind

Xanthic yams

Zombiefest!

2009 © Sue Barton

Autumn Death (Haiku)

Abandoning leaves

Make way for next year’s cycle

Birth, growth, harvest, death

2009 © Sue Barton

Autumn’s Death (Rictameter)

Autumn

Left Saturday

And never came back home

Police say she was mugged and raped

Thunderstorm washing away evidence

We’ll never know her murderer

A neighborhood youngster

Somebody knows

Autumn

2009 © Sue Barton

Autumn Revelation (Than-Bauk)

Colorful Leaves

Dripping eaves filled

Then heaves dead snake

2009 © Sue Barton

Autumn (Acrostic)

Annual season brings about

Ugly family get-togethers like

Thanksgiving where the

Usual suspects get drunk, watch football

Miraculously make up in time for a

Nightcap

2009 © Sue Barton

Autumn’s Fall (Septolet)

Fall

Serpent’s fruit

Brought Eden’s death

Man’s first wrong choice

Adam

Listened to

Eve

2009 © Sue Barton

Autumnal Weather (Quinzaine)

The rain comes and the winds blow.

Will you hide yourself indoors?

Can’t you dry?

2009 © Sue Barton

Autumn’s Fiery Blaze (Nonet)

Maple leaves brilliantly on display

Oranges, violets, and reds

Cranberries, purples and mauves

Nature’s colorful time

Pumpkins and squashes

Jack O’Lanterns

Raked piles

Bonfires

Leaves

2009 © Sue Barton

Harvest Time (Cinquain )

Harvest

Crops are ready

Pulling, plucking, reaping

Overwhelming food abundance

Collect

2009 © Sue Barton

The Orchard ( Tanaga)

Time to shake the apple leaves

Put the ladders in the trees

Gotta get ‘em ‘fore the freeze

Before the wild autumn breeze

2009 © Sue Barton

Comments: 16

Atticus *. Nov 7, 2009, 3:32pm EST

Magnificent! These are all jewels Susan. - Way to obsess! And each has a wonderfully unique flavor.

Susan B. Nov 7, 2009, 4:09pm EST

Thank you!! And after all of that my husband asked me if I ever thought about writing a poem and just dd it in like 10 minutes. Huh??? 10 of them in 2ish hours???? :) sheesh

Atticus *. Nov 7, 2009, 4:17pm EST

You rock! I especially like 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Excellent work.

Susan B. Nov 7, 2009, 4:35pm EST

Again, thank you. I really didn't think I'd spend Saturday morning writing poetry - I'm doing NaNoWriMo and am cranking on my story. But you said something about creativity sparking more creativity --

"it occurred to me that every time I do something like this, work some idea to exhaustion, I get a charge of adrenaline fueled creativity that catapults me into new levels of thinking. When I am there, it is the greatest thing on earth. I find myself snickering joyfully at all sorts of spontaneous ideas and barely able to contain myself or refrain from sitting down to write (even when I'm supposed to be doing something else)."

and that is very true with me. I'm surprised when I hear an author say that they either write poetry or fiction or nonfiction, but not all at the same time.

For me, writing fiction almost always sends me into a poetic frenzy.

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Elsie Duggan Nov 7, 2009, 5:28pm EST

These are all wonderful Susan, my goodness what a lovely array of words and visions,

Susan B. Nov 7, 2009, 5:45pm EST

That means a lot coming from you master poetess :)

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Solskin Iam Nov 7, 2009, 5:48pm EST

how wonderful all of these are........ picking the apples before they freeze made me smile.... most years we find ourselves in this position but we are picking citrus before an unexpected freze......

Susan B. Nov 7, 2009, 6:32pm EST

Thank you so much for coming by to read :)

I hear you! My grandparents lived in Southern Oregon where they grow a lot of peaches and pears and keep smudge pots going in the orchards in winter

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JOHN BECK Nov 7, 2009, 9:34pm EST

Nice collection of forms to explore the various directions from the subject, with great results.

Susan B. Nov 7, 2009, 11:16pm EST

Thanks for taking a gander :)

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Eucliffe L. Nov 8, 2009, 9:24am EST

The seasons well seasoned and served with muted elegance and stark variety. an line from one of the old masters came to me " ***** of ****** o wind, if winter comes can spring be far behind ?" cant remember the rest or the poet